Very nice lookkng drawer! I like it a lot when materilas look themselves (I hate much modern flloring materilas tiles made to look wood, plastic made to look tiles....). I also enjoy seeng good honest joinery. I don't care if joinery is machine or hand made, both needs skill and there is a learning curve.

Thanks for showing them. You don't happen to have any pictures of joinery when you were making them?

I admit the dovetails were cut with a router and not by hand.I can just about do it the traditional way, but with that many drawers to make I was bound to make a mistake somewhere.

I have only got a couple of pictures of progress, but if I can work out how to squeeze a milling machine into the garage I will be making another one.

I have also put up a picture of an awl I have made. The brass ferrule was actually turned on the wood lathe by hand, and was the start of me wanting to get a metal working lathe. The wood is cocobolo. It has no finish on it, and was simply buffed to that shine. A beautiful tropical hardwood, but horrendously expensive and it does come with a health warning.

I admit the dovetails were cut with a router and not by hand.I can just about do it the traditional way, but with that many drawers to make I was bound to make a mistake somewhere.

Nothing wring of using the machines. I use routet much of the joinery, but never used router to make dovetails. Just too much hardware to do limited size and spacing.....but I have considered buying something simple. On the line of Leigh R9, only "problem" is that they are imperial - some consepts are foreign to me.

Yeahhhhh....checked some material on youtube and did read instructions and the I concluded that I would ruin more material with that kit than on my manual method. I also had to do some dovetails on about 50 mm thick material and concluded to make stuff manually.

I really considered that R9, but can't rmember waht stopped me....does it has router bits for 8 mm collets? If not then I would need to replace my old trusty festo and that probably would not happen any time soon.

Anyway I would be happy to see how you make next furniture and there are so many diffrent ways to do joinery.